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Maury May Be Able to Say, 'You ARE the Father,' Thanks to Smartphone App Developed at UCI

Pretty soon, the host of syndicated TV's Maury may be able to whip out his smartphone, look at the screen and proclaim, "You are the father!"And if Maury Povich does do that, he'll have computer scientists to thank at UC Irvine, where an Android smartphone app has been developed to store a small amo ... More >>

Make your iPhone even cooler

[Trendzilla] Bling it out with JasminTCreations or add camera lenses for the look of a professional image

Burning Bush

[Hey, You!] In the YouTube era, common sense goes up in flames

Gizmos-a-Go-Go

[Trendzilla] Alarm clocks that roll, purses that charge iPhones and more!

Lawyer: Anaheim Police Beat Up My Client After He Vomited On Them, Took Cell-Phone from Victim's Mother

Anaheim's long, hot summer continues... A cell phone video posted to YouTube that has gone viral showing a man punched numerous times with his head  while being restrained has been verified as happening in Anaheim, and a federal lawsuit against officers and the Anaheim Police Department is fort ... More >>

[UPDATED with Correct Coastkeeper:] Orange County Clean Beaches? App-solutely!

See update at the end of this post.ORIGINAL POST, JUNE 1, 6:34 A.M.: Heal the Bay's Beach Report Card unveiled last week showed 94 percent of Orange County beaches received A and B grades for water quality during dry weather last summer, while a still-respectable 87 percent got A's and B's in the ... More >>

The Beatles' 1 album Is Available As Ringtones...Why Now?

​File this under "if everybody else is doing it, we may as well be doing it as well." After years of resistance, the Beatles have finally given into the temptation (or have adapted to the times) and have allowed the songs of their #1 album to be sold as ring tones. Though this would have been in n ... More >>

Luther Clayborn Dawson Jr. Caught in the Act of Selling Phony iPhones: Police

​Irvine Police detectives say they got Luther Clayborn Dawson Jr.'s number, arresting the San Marcos 41-year-old Monday for allegedly using craigslist to find iPhone buyers who later discovered the iPhone boxes only contained owner manuals and rectangular pieces of ceramic tile. Police Lt. Julia E ... More >>

The Queen's Gallery

Muzeo

WeedMaps, California's Biggest Marijuana Website, Is "Winning" Y'all!

​Way to go, WeedMaps! Just a day before President Barack Obama pretty much officially declares war on medical marijuana in California, the state's premiere pot-related website has to brag to the world about how profitable it is.That's right--profitable--the last word that's supposed to come to min ... More >>

The iPhone 4S and iOS 5: What This Means to Gamers

​Apple announced yesterday during iPhone event new details regarding their newest iteration of the iPhone and an update to their iOS operating system. Sure, the new phone will have a better camera and whatnot, but how will all this affect those that use Apple's i-devices as gaming platforms? The f ... More >>

No iPhone 5 vs. Tupac's Real Killer: Which News is Bigger Today?

​So now that everyone is disappointed that Apple didn't introduce the iPhone 5 and instead introduced a version of the iPhone 4 with a better camera, we turn our attention to our sister paper LA Weekly's big news today: that Tupac Shakur was ordered killed by Sean Combs, then known as Puff Daddy, ... More >>

Three Reasons the Michael Jackson Trial App Feels So Wrong

​So yes, there is such as thing as a Michael Jackson Doctor Trial App, a mini "media center for the iPhone and iPad and Android devices." Released by Fox Television Stations, the app includes live video of the trial proceedings, recorded local news segments, photo galleries and biographies of thos ... More >>

There's a Shopping App for That

[Trendzilla] Coupon Sherpa, Stylebook and Amazon Mobile are there to help

Al Wadee Bakery: As American As Manakeesh

[Hole in the Wall] Our future Muslim overlords make really tasty flatbreads, so it won't be all bad

The Light! It Burns!

[Hey, You!] How to get all of your Goth friends to de-friend you

The Art of iPhone Photography

Facebook photo albums are littered with the digital debris of people spontaneously whipping out their iPhones and snapping the most mundane images. Kittens, gay beefcake, drunken frat parties, new babies, Republican Congressmen answering Craigslist postings; an influx of images, ... More >>

Guess Who Paid for Study Advocating Free Prepaid Cell Phones for the Poor?

​A "first of its kind" study by the New Millennium Research Council (NMRC) concludes $4 billion in income could be generated for the poor by simply giving such folks free prepaid cell phones."Subsidized Cell Phones Provide Significant Economic Gains for Poor and Near-Poor Americans" singles out ... More >>

CHART: Sony NGP Vs. Nintendo 3DS Vs. the iPhone 4

​Within the span of a single week, Nintendo and Sony have set the stage for the latest video-game-system war: the Nintendo 3DS vs the Sony NGP.The two systems are vastly different from each other, and each will appeal to a completely different audience. The Sony NGP (cheesily short for next genera ... More >>

Got Graffiti, Potholes or Weeds in Long Beach? There's an App For That

​After checking their e-mail and playing yet another round of Angry Birds, smartphone users in Long Beach can help de-fuglify the neighborhood.The city has launched "Go Long Beach," a free application for the iPhone and BlackBerry (the Android app will be released in December) that allows resident ... More >>

We've Got an App for That

Reasons Why You Shouldn't Buy the iPhone 4

​Now that all the hype and excitement surrounding the recently announced iPhone 4 has died down a bit, let's take a step back and consider if the new smartphone is worth your time and money. Is it worth it to upgrade from last summer's 3GS model? Is this a good time for first-time users? Here are ... More >>

Laguna Hills Company Says Its App Ends Deadly Texting-While-Driving Practice

​A Laguna Hills company that creates applications for mobile and stationary telecommunications, claims to have come up with an app to solve "the deadly texting-while-driving social epidemic."

Gettin' Made: Hip to Get Square

Three cheers to past Gettin' Made featured artist Stephanie Han Windham for posting a link to the new Square card reader on her Facebook page. This little gadget and the accompanying credit card processing app could very well revolutionize the way indie crafters operate at shows. (At the very l ... More >>

All Tomorrow's Parties

Art Theatre

Researchers: Cell Phones and Brain Tumors Are a Bad Connection

​Keep those Blackberries pushed up tightly against your heads, Christmas shoppers: a very large, 30-year study of just about everyone in Scandinavia shows no link between cell-phone use and brain tumors.Reuters has the skinny.The findings validate what UC Irvine medical researchers have been sayin ... More >>

iPhone App Shows Recovery Money Spent Before Your Eyes

​If we were the iPhone app-acquiring sort -- actually, just if we had a coveted iPhone 3G -- we'd snap up this thingy from public-disclosure advocacy org Sunlight Labs. It's one of baced on Layar's "augmented reality" doohickeys, whereby you point your phone a certain direction and see, on the dis ... More >>

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Chain Reaction

Live and Let Die

Bay Theater

Barbara Coe Falls for Stupid Human Cell Phone Tricks!

It's always debatable whether California Coalition for Immigration Reform head Barbara Coe and her followers are senile, stupid or both. Forget their Know Nothing rants, and refry the following email Coe sent to followers.Some guy sent the video below, which purports to show that cell phones can mak ... More >>

Intro to Living Foods

Whole Foods Market

Live from Coachella: Actual Music! We Are Scientists!

OMG. The inside of Coachella actually exists. After a Homeric oddyssey getting in here, we're watching We Are Scientists on the main stage. Quite a change from the last time I saw them, which was 2006, in front of a few dozen peeps at the Brickhouse in Phoenix, AZ (now closed, I think). They sound ... More >>

It's All Relative

Scalable Relations

Newport Beach & Orange County Restaurant Week Coming Soon

Things to put down on your day planner, your iPhone calendar, Blackberry, or whatever: January 18-22 is going to be the Third Annual Newport Beach Restaurant Week.  This is the time when a selected roster of restaurants will be offering a three-course prix fixe for $15 or $20 for lunch, and $20 ... More >>

Orange County Market Place

OC Fairgrounds

Seriously Scary — Yet Snackworthy

Videos are springing up all over the internet depicting cell phone frequencies popping pop corn kernels. And you put that shit next to your brain. Think about it. . . I bet that pesky Schwarzenegger legislation prohibiting the use of handheld mobile phones while driving doesn't sound so bad now ... More >>

Happy Friday!

Hate your job? This guy sure does. Check out his destructive office rampage captured by a security camera. During the freak out, he throws a monitor at a co-worker and gets tased by the security officer. No word yet on whether the footage is fake. A color version, shot from one of the co-worke ... More >>

Is Obama an Angels fan?

Thought just occurred to me while watching his victory-but-not-really-victory speech a few minutes ago, as the Senator and his supporters have taken up the "Yes We Can!" rallying cry -- which, it should be noted, was also the theme of the then-California Angels' AL West-winning 1979 season. See the ... More >>

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"These newfangled phones are incredibly handy—letting us respond to e-mails from the boss whenever and wherever we want."

Attention Guitar Hero Junkies

It’s Guitar Hero on your cell phone! (kind of) AT&T has announced it’s launch of the new cell phone game GuitarStar. Modeled after the video game phenomenon, GuitarStar uses similar beat matching technology, instructing players to “catch” guitar picks flying across the screen’s cross ha ... More >>

The Danger in Your Pants (Minimal risk edition)

If you don't stuff your pants pockets with flammable items, you probably assume you may safely drop off to sleep without awaking to find your pants on fire. Luis Picaso of Vallejo must have. The San Francisco Chronicle recounts what happened next. Luis Picaso, 59, was apparently sleeping on a whit ... More >>

Cognitive Overload as a Motorsport

There's good news if you're one of those people infuriated by the sight of some idiot behind the steering wheel with a cell phone pressed to his head talking and not paying attention while driving-- that idiot's days are numbered. Come Summer 2008, that idiot will be replace by the new and improved ... More >>

Can you hear me... Arrgghhh!

Cell phones, as you know, can kill you. While there is still some controversy over whether your cell phone is capable of killing you slowly (e.g. brain tumors), there's no doubt about the cell phone's ability to facilitate a quick death (e.g. the idiot behind the wheel of a car whose phone conversio ... More >>

Kill the Poor!

Irvine proposes low-cost housing for toxic land

The Ghost of Malthus in OC

Only four days after OC was named the third wealthiest county in the country (with 113,299 millionaire households), news comes that Irvine is taking measures to ensure low-cost housing remains available. Given the state of low-cost housing in OC (mostly nonexistent), and the fact that the LA Times ... More >>

'Definitely Not Vintage'

Blind tasting five choice selections

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Hard Cell

Slider cell phone owners try to phone it in

Latin America, Political? No Way!